Neuroskeptic

@Neuro_Skeptic

Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry through a skeptical lens. Just a brain with some eyes. Blogs for and .

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Joined June 2011
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  1. 4h

    The "Eleven Dimensional" Brain? Topology of Neural Networks An interesting paper but no extra dimensions. New post!

    4 replies . 12 retweets 39 likes
  2. 8h

    HuffPo article claims that someone was "born with second sight" as "an empath." Dopamine is involved. huFFS post

    11 replies . 8 retweets 25 likes
  3. 8h

    "According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there are many parts to the brain." Well, if they say so!

    2 retweets 28 likes
  4. 8h

    Is General Intelligence Little More Than the Speed of Higher-Order Processing? To g or not to g. Symphony in g major

    8 replies . 13 retweets 46 likes
  5. 8h

    Should newspapers be responsible for accuracy?

    Should Journals Be Responsible for Reproducibility?
    2 replies . 13 retweets 32 likes
  6. 10h

    "Interspecies co-sleeping has been trivialized in the literature... receiving little attention from psychology" 😴🐱

    10 replies . 4 retweets 18 likes
  7. 10h

    We talk about a "right to health", but do we also need a "right to be ill"?

    4 retweets 11 likes
  8. 10h

    Psychology of cults: what factors contribute to joining or leaving? Paper out today is oddly topical

    2 replies . 5 retweets 15 likes
  9. 10h

    Bacteria in Alzheimer's brains... hmm... until proven otherwise isn't this more likely consequence than cause of neurodegeneration?

    On one hand it sounds like an artefact or just bullshit, on the other is world-leading publisher, on neuroscience & all else!
    7 replies . 7 retweets 21 likes
  10. 16h

    If philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, pop culture is a series of footnotes to Romero

    Stephen King, Jordan Peele, Eli Roth and more pay tribute to influential horror director George A. Romero
    3 replies . 5 retweets 34 likes
  11. 16h

    I'm posting on the Blue Brain "cliques" algebraic topology paper What do people think? Any graph theorists read it?

    9 replies . 18 retweets 44 likes
  12. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    OK twitter, time for my first ever tweet thread, on our new paper! With : 1/x

    5 replies . 64 retweets 117 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of human intelligence via

    6 replies . 19 retweets 23 likes
  14. Jul 16

    It's weird how people assume that red and yellow blobs on the brain are good. I don't think people would be happy about blobs on their heart

    this image is everywhere
    13 replies . 29 retweets 77 likes
  15. Jul 16

    Dopamine, the explanation for everything. "A wizard did it"? No. Dopamine did it.

    8 replies . 32 retweets 74 likes
  16. Jul 16

    fMRI: "there is a systematic dependence of the false positive rate on the resampling parameter" uh-oh...

    3 replies . 50 retweets 58 likes
  17. Jul 16

    What do Archives of Sexual Behaviour and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have in common?

    4 replies . 6 retweets 19 likes
  18. Jul 16

    Do men overestimate women's interest in sex? Or do women underreport their sexual intentions? Sexy self report

    4 replies . 29 retweets 58 likes
  19. Jul 16

    Case report of a boy whose organs were flipped left-to-right (situs inversus) but his brain was normally lateralized

    5 replies . 20 retweets 36 likes
  20. Jul 16

    A "quantum" smartphone app that changes your heartbeat via "subtle energy" from 1 meter away a quantum of absurdity

    9 replies . 10 retweets 37 likes

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